9396201

Method of Data Sorting

PublishedJuly 19, 2016
Assigneenot available in USPTO data we have
InventorsBin Zhou
Technical Abstract

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22 claims

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1. A method of data sorting, at least comprising: setting a classification rule in a table of t_file for a database of a computer-readable storage medium, wherein the computer-readable storage medium at least comprises a receiving unit, a processing unit and a storage unit; the receiving unit receiving a plurality of files having file names; the processing unit processing the file names received by the receiving unit according to the classification rule to generate a plurality of conversion codes corresponding to the file names; and the storage unit storing the conversion codes generated by the processing unit in the table of t_file for corresponding to the file names, wherein the storage unit orderly stores the conversion codes according to a predetermined order of the classification rule and the table of t_file records a relationship between the file names and the classification rule.

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2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the classification rule comprises a string type identification process, a digital string identification process, and a string conversion identification process.

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3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the string type identification process comprises: determining a file name initialed with a special character as a first type stored value, determining a file name initialed with a pure Arabic numeral as a second type stored value, and determining a file name initialed with a string other than a special character and a pure Arabic numeral as a third type stored value.

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4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein based on the predetermined order of the classification rule, sorting is performed according to the first type stored value, the second type stored value and the third type stored value.

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5. The method according to claim 3 , whereof the file names with English or Chinese initial are determined as the third type stored value.

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6. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the digital string identification process comprises: determining the quantity of effective bits when the string of the file name is determined as the pure Arabic numeral.

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7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the string conversion identification process comprises: converting the file names into English letters and/or digits according to a fixed rule, such that the identified file names are respectively converted to generate conversion codes corresponding to the file names.

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8. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the string conversion identification process comprises: converting the file names into English letters and/or digits according to a fixed rule, such that the identified file names are respectively converted to generate conversion codes corresponding to the file names.

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9. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the digital string identification process comprises: determining the quantity of effective bits when the string of the file name is determined as the pure Arabic numeral.

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10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein based on the predetermined order of the classification rule, the pure Arabic numerals of the file names are sorted according to the determined values of effective bits.

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11. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the string conversion identification process comprises: converting the file names into English letters and/or digits according to a fixed rule, such that the identified file names are respectively converted to generate conversion codes corresponding to the file names.

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12. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the string conversion identification process comprises: converting each special character of the file name into a character code corresponding to the special character according to a coding scheme.

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13. The method according to claim 12 , wherein the coding scheme is American National Standards Institute (ANSI) code or Unicode.

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14. The method according to claim 12 , wherein each special character of each file name is converted into an ANSI 6-bit decimal code, and the code less than 6 bits is filled with Os to generate a character code corresponding to the special character.

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15. The method according to claim 12 , wherein based on the predetermined order of the classification rule, sorting is performed according to the ranking of corresponding character codes.

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16. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the string conversion identification process comprises: capitalizing each English letter of each file name.

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17. The method according to claim 16 , wherein the string conversion identification process further comprises: converting each English letter a or A of each file name into AA.

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18. The method according to claim 16 , wherein based on the predetermined order of the classification rule, the converted English letters in capital letters are sorted according to the alphabetical order of English letters.

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19. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the string conversion identification process comprises: converting the first letter of the English pinyin system corresponding to each Chinese character of each file name into small letter.

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20. The method according to claim 19 , wherein the English pinyin system is a Hanyu pinyin system or a Tongyong pinyin system.

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21. The method according to claim 19 , wherein based on the predetermined order of the classification rule, the Chinese characters of each file name are sorted according to alphabetical order of the first letters of the Chinese characters of each file name converted by the English pinyin system.

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22. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the string conversion identification process comprises: converting each effective digit in the string of each file name into A, the first letter of the alphabet, plus an ANSI decimal code.

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July 19, 2016

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Bin Zhou

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